focal adhesion assembly

id: GO:0048041
name: focal adhesion assembly
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The aggregation and bonding together of a set of components to form a focal adhesion, a complex of intracellular signaling and structural proteins that provides a structural link between the internal actin cytoskeleton and the ECM, and also function as a locus of signal transduction activity.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0007044cell-substrate junction assembly